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Annual Report 2015 -3- Melbourne Theatre Company Annual Report 2015 4 Highlights 59 NEON Extra 6 MTC Board and MTC Foundation Board 8 Chairman’s Report 62 Education 10 Artistic Director’s Report 64 I Call My Brothers 12 Executive Director’s Report 66 Education Program 14 Development Director’s Report 68 Sharing the Light 16 Literary Director’s Report 70 Cybec Electric MTC is a department of the University of Melbourne 18 2015 Mainstage Season 20 Jumpy 73 MTC Initiatives 22 What Rhymes with Cars and Girls 73 Women Directors Program 24 Endgame 73 Assistant Directors Program 26 The Waiting Room 73 MTC CONNECT 28 North by Northwest 73 Dramaturg Internships 30 Birdland 32 Death and the Maiden 74 Economic Impact Study: 34 The Weir North by Northwest 36 Betrayal MTC Headquarters 38 Buyer and Cellar 76 Awards and Nominations 252 Sturt St 40 The Last Man Standing 78 Employment Southbank VIC 3006 42 The Boy at the Edge of Everything 78 Actors and Artists 2015 03 8688 0900 44 MTC on Tour 80 MTC Staff 2015 Southbank Theatre 46 Jumpy 140 Southbank Blvd 47 Complexity of Belonging 82 Support for MTC Southbank VIC 3006 48 Pennsylvania Avenue 82 Corporate Partners 03 8688 0800 49 The Weir 84 Donors mtc.com.au Venues 50 NEON Festival of Independent Theatre 86 Financials Throughout 2015 MTC performed its Melbourne season of plays at 51 MKA: Theatre of New Writing 88 Key performance indicators Southbank Theatre, The Sumner and The Lawler, 52 The Zoey Louise Moonbeam Dawson 91 Financial Statement and the Fairfax Studio and Playhouse at Arts Centre Melbourne. Shakespeare Company 53 Dirty Pretty Theatre Managing Editor Virginia Lovett 54 Dee & Cornelius Graphic Designer Helena Turinski 55 Elbow Room Cover Image Jeff Busby 56 The Last Tuesday Society: Pimp My Play Production Photographers Sebastian Bourges, Jeff Busby, Pier Carthew, Adele Cochrane, 57 NEON Residency: Rawcus Jean Couturier, Paul Dunn, Tim Grey, Mauro Palmieri, Shane Reid, Sarah Walker. 58 NEON Readings Cover North by Northwest: Matt Day and Amber McMahon -4- -5- 2015 Highlights 494actors, creatives and Industry $3.7 professionals worked with MTC million $12.7 million of economic impact generated by North by Northwest box office revenue earned million total revenue new $24.4 Australian plays in Mainstage Season 4 directors19 mentored 7,949 through secondments, Women Directors Program and Assistant Directors Program 16 school tickets sold playwrights independent 7 to MTC productions under commission theatre companies supported via NEON Festival 685 total performances of Independent Theatre 230,550 6 of 131%core government funding spent productions on tour paid attendances to MTC productions or interstate transfer directly on cast and creative wages -6- -7- Martyn Myer ao Brett Sheehy ao Chairman, The Myer Family Investments Ltd; MTC Artistic Director; Board member since MTC Board Member of the Council of the University of January 2012. Melbourne; Chairman of Cogstate Limited; B.Mech Eng, M.Eng. Science, M. Sc in Management, Virginia Lovett FIEA. Board member since January 2011. MTC Executive Director; Board member since January 2013. Maureen Wheeler Terry Moran ac (Chair) Jonathan Feder Founder of Lonely Planet Publications; Founder and Adrian Collette am (Observer) Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Partner at K & L Gates; Theatre Producer (JAF Trustee of the Planet Wheeler Foundation; Board Vice-Principal (Engagement), University of Cabinet to 2011; Chair of the Barangaroo Delivery Productions and Two Left Feet Productions); B.Laws member of Text Publishing; previously principal Melbourne; Board member of Australia Council Authority; Special Adviser on Public Sector Reform (Hons), B.Sc. Board member since June 2010. patron of the Melbourne Ring Cycle, and board for the Arts and Committee for Melbourne; Life at the Boston Consulting Group; Chair Cranlana member of Tourism Tasmania and the Northern Member of Live Performance Australia; previously Programme; National President of the Institute of Gillian Franklin Territory Tourism Advisory Board. Board member Chief Executive Officer of Opera Australia. Public Administration; Governor of the Committee Founder and Managing Director of The Heat Group; since July 2014 for Economic Development of Australia; BA (Hons). Board member of: Australian Grand Prix Board member since January 2012. Chair from Corporation (Deputy Chair), Cosmetic, Toiletry and January 2014. Fragrance Association of Australia (CTFA), ACCORD, The Heat Group, TFS Corporation, Member of the Tony Burgess Visitor Economy Ministerial Advisory Committee. MTC Foundation Board Chief Executive Officer of Flagstaff Partners; Director Board member since September 2006. of Diversified United Investment Limited; Director of Melbourne Business School Limited; Chairman of Jane Hansen Jane Hansen (Chair) Janette Kendall the Melbourne Foundation for Business and Chair of the Little Foundation; Member of the Chair of the Little Foundation; Member of the Non-executive director of Wellcom Worldwide and Economics; Governor of the Ian Potter Foundation; University of Melbourne Council and the Humanities University of Melbourne Council and the Humanities a partner at Goldeneye Media; previously on the Member of CPA Australia; Fellow of the Financial Foundation Board; previously on the Boards of the Foundation Board; previously on the Boards of the boards of the Melbourne International Festival of Services Institute of Australia. Board member since MCG Trust, the State Sport Centres Trust, the MCG Trust, the State Sport Centres Trust, the the Arts, AURL Foodworks, Clemenger BBDO; February 2015. Federal body of Athletics Australia and the Federal body of Athletics Australia and the former Senior Vice President at Galaxy Foundation of the State Library of Victoria. Board Foundation of the State Library of Victoria. Entertainment Group, China. MTC Foundation Board Professor Barry Conyngham am member since February 2015. MTC Foundation Chair since August 2015. member since March 2015. Dean, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University Janette Kendall Terry Bracks am Leigh O’Neill of Melbourne; Emeritus Professor University of Janette Kendall is a non-executive director of Founding Chair of Western Chances; Patron of Executive General Manager, NAB Micro & Small Wollongong and Southern Cross University; MA Wellcom Worldwide, and a partner at Goldeneye Heide Gallery and the Williamstown Literary Business in Personal Banking; Chair of Chunky (Hons), DMUS: CertPostDocStud (UCSD). Board Media; previously on the boards of the Melbourne Festival; formerly a board member of Breast Cancer Move; fomerly General Manager for NAB Private member since October 2013. International Festival of the Arts, AURL Foodworks, Network Australia, the National Film and Sound Wealth in Victoria and Board member for the Griffin Clemenger BBDO; former Senior Vice President at Archive, the Australian Children’s Television Theatre Company Board and the Ilhan Food Allergy Professor Glyn Davis ac Galaxy Entertainment Group, China. Board member Foundation; and a past Trustee of the Victorian Arts Foundation. MTC Foundation Board member since Vice Chancellor, The University of Melbourne; since February 2015. Centre Trust. MTC Foundation Board member since March 2015. Professor of Political Science; past Chair, March 2015. Universities Australia; B.A (Hons), PhD, AC, FASSA. Ian Marshman Virginia Lovett Board member since January 2005. Former Senior Vice-Principal, University of Fiona Griffiths MTC Executive Director; MTC Foundation Board Melbourne Chair of the Universitas 21 Managers Board member of Ruyton Girls’ School; former member since March 2015. Patricia Faulkner ao Group and Chair of VTAC Committee of School Council President Auburn Primary School; Chair of the Telecommunications Industry Management; Director of Headspace National Youth formerly ANZ Group Strategy, ANZ Legal Group and Tiffany Lucas Ombudsman Board, the National Health Mental Health Foundation; Chair, Melbourne Dental a senior associate at DLA Phillips Fox. MTC MTC Development Director; MTC Foundation Board Performance Authority and Jesuit Social Services; Clinic Board; BA (Honours), LLB. Board member Foundation Board member since March 2015. member since March 2015. Deputy Chair of St Vincent’s Healthcare Australia; since January 2009. Commissioner of the Commonwealth Grants Lia Chappell Commission. Board member since February 2015. MTC Finance Director; MTC Foundation Board member since March 2015. -8- -9- Chairman’s Report Melbourne Theatre lives; they bring us pleasure and insight; they independent theatre companies, we are mystified Company is an dissect, criticise and question our assumptions; by the apparent undervaluing of MTC’s contribution exceptionally risky they reflect our experience back to us, revealing to the cultural vibrancy of Victoria. business. By that I what we have failed to notice; and while they’ll often don’t necessarily mean be an escape from the world, we know that the world Our future is dictated by a simple equation: as the MTC’s activities are will seem a little altered when we return to it. proportion of our revenue coming from government financially precarious sources lowers, the greater will be our reliance on or chancy – though we And within live performance, theatre holds a special commercial factors, which adds up to fewer artistic work within very tight place. It’s the most immediate and contemporary risks being taken, less artistic vitality, a trimming